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Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer

Posted by timothy on from the and-really-what-else-is-there dept.

freax writes "Today in the the xbox-linux mailinglist: I'm typing this into KMail using a USB keybaord (and a USB mouse) in front of the TV connected to the Xbox. ... and even StarOffice works quite fine. TuxRacer also runs (look at the new screenhots on the website), but only with one frame per second. Check out screenshots here."

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  1. Can you run Wine? by Zeinfeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the question now is whether you can run the X-Box emulator on the result.

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    1. Re:Can you run Wine? by Indras · · Score: 4, Funny

      So the question now is whether you can run the X-Box emulator on the result.

      And if you can, will it be faster than the original, because of the OS upgrade? ::grins::

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  2. Wahoo! by Jacer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have an X-box, and NO games, just the DVD kit. (I entered the taco bell challenge 600 times!!) Now I can do something other than play DVD's on it!

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    1. Re:Wahoo! by cioxx · · Score: 3, Funny

      I entered the taco bell challenge 600 times!!

      I hope your ass exploded from all those burritos.

    2. Re:Wahoo! by Hal-9001 · · Score: 2, Funny
      I entered the taco bell challenge 600 times!!
      Your name wouldn't happen to be Lazlo Hollyfeld?
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  3. Finally by davidstrauss · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can spend $200 on a poor-quality, non-upgradable (and non-waranteed) Pentium III instead of building my own for about the same amount.

    1. Re:Finally by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

      "I can spend $200 on a poor-quality, non-upgradable (and non-waranteed) Pentium III instead of building my own for about the same amount"

      I'm sure Linux users everywhere are ready to buy a PC from Microsoft so they can run Linux on it. Heh.

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    2. Re:Finally by peterprior · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm.. thinking about it.. seeing as Microsoft is making a loss on every box sold, and hoping to make money on the games instead, if we ALL by an xbox but no games, Microsoft should go bust :D

  4. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now I can finally play TuxRacer at one FPS instead of all those crappy professionally made Xbox games!

  5. Doom 3 by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is awesome! Why is this awesome? Because now people who have an Xbox will be able to play Doom3 at the *same time* that it comes out for the PC.

    All this without the Anal Leakage (TM) that is the Xbox gamepad.

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  6. keybaord by *xpenguin* · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm typing this into KMail using a USB keybaord

    Looks like it's a buggy USB keybaord.

  7. The Linux Che by zapf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Check out this picture.

    "this is the beginning of microsoft's end."

    Because everyone knows that Tux Racer is going to be the catalyst for change.

    Oh, and GLTron.

  8. Good good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that an Amiga monitor?

    1. Re:Good good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Dear god, I think so

  9. Re:yay! by mark_lybarger · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are significant between loose [dictionary.com]

    significant what? significance is maybe what you had intended to type? perhaps, you wanted to type "There are significant differences..". perhaps it was just a human mistake. regardless, what you intended to type, and what appeared on the slashdot posting were two entirely diferent things causing significant disruption in the overall karma of the slashdot world.

    ah, well, back to browsing.

  10. Re:Hold on a second.... by davidstrauss · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do we know you're not just a Microsoft employee posing as a /. user?

  11. Re:Why this is a good thing by neo8750 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Runs Linux for network admin types (imagine a few of these suckers in your business - $200 for a Staroffice/web browsing/java running machine).

    this plan works till your boss walks in and see you playing halo.

  12. Your camera is faulty by cca93014 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, you need to take your camera back to whereever you bought it. There's some really fucking annoying penguin stuck to the lens that's being included in every shot.

    I can't believe you haven't noticed it.

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  13. tux racer by mgebbers · · Score: 4, Funny
    TuxRacer also runs (look at the new screenhots on the website), but only with one frame per second.


    so it's the same as a normal pc with a geforce then


    **boom boom**

    :D

  14. Re:toaster-linux by dirkdidit · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I can finger my microwave

    That is undoubtedly the most disturbing thing I've ever heard in my life.

  15. Microsoft loses $150 on each xbox it sells..... by kajoob · · Score: 5, Funny

    at this rate, we'll only have to buy up a shade over 26 million of these puppies to eat up Microsoft's $4 billion cash reserve. The Empire is about to fall!

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  16. MOD UP PARENT +5 HI-LARIOUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    OMFG!!! It's funny 'cause Window$ suxs!!! HA HA HA!!!